[PC] Playing Ps2/GC/Xbox on the PC. Composite vs. S-video

I'm just sharing this with you guys to show the difference between s-video and standard composite cables. I'm sure theres a good amount of people that don't know about these differences, or if anything, just how big they are! here it is..

I recently played Final Fantasy XII on my laptop using a TV tuner card. I lost my glasses and I can't see shit on my tv from where it is so this was the best option. I got to chill in my bed and role play it up.

I used a hauppage pvr-900 which has a few inputs, audio s video, and composite cable. I hooked up everything and went through the composite video.

I was not impressed. I actually got headaches while playing fullscreen because of the lack of sharpness. It was a real drag, I had a hard time making out the enemies fully and seeing what they were all about, and couldn't really tell what the textures were. Nonetheless I played the game, but not before visiting ebay.

I got myself a monster ps2 s video cable for 6 bucks, new. WOW. SO it came the other day and was thick as hell. Like really thick, 3x as thick as the standard ps2 cable.

Anyway here and my screenshots. I just put them in a folder and went back and forth between them.

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It's clear that S-video makes a very nice difference if you are playing these games on a monitor or HDTV. It won't have as big an impact on standard definition sets, but you will still see a difference.

I will never hook up with standard cables again. They DO make a difference. Let's also not forget that is running thru a tiny tv tuner, and I'm sure it would look even better if it were hooked up straight into an hdtv.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

This is either a joke thread, or I accidentally activated the TDE in my room and got sent back to 1996.

Who would be dumb enough to use S-Video on an HDTV---unless, of course, we are talking about Wii, where everything looks so bad, there's no point of using anything above an RF switch.

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Monster cables are overpriced and do nothing that generic brand don't do for less, just so you know. I think that's the most important thing to get out of the way first. If you think the improvement you can see right now is impressive, you'd be stunned by the improvement in quality you get from component. I doubt your current equipment supports it, but you could easly achieve a massive improvement in output quality on almost any console by connecting it to a screen that supports component video.

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